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Let Jason Kilar Take a Bow — Hulu CEO Jason Kilar is headed out the door, as is CTO Rich Tom. Other employees at the video site are going soon, as well. — None of that is surprising, and if you're trying to figure out what that means for Hulu, you're asking the wrong question.

EU says its Google case not affected by U.S. ruling — (Reuters) - A decision by U.S. regulators to end a probe into whether Google Inc hurt rivals by manipulating internet searches will not affect the European Union's examination of the company. — “We have taken note of the FTC …

Spotify suspends music download service in the UK — EXCLUSIVE: No longer supporting purchases — Spotify is no longer allowing users to buy music through its streaming service, Pocket-lint has discovered. — When trying to buy tracks, even Premium subscribers are met with a notice that states …

Netflix open sources tool to clean up your AWS cloud — Those Netflix engineers are at it again — releasing source code to an in-house tool they use to keep their Amazon Web Services pared down and tidy. Janitor Monkey is a tool they use to automate the detection and clean up of unused AWS resources.

HTC Vows to Step Up Innovation — TAIPEI—The head of HTC Corp. said the beleaguered Taiwanese smartphone maker didn't market their products aggressively enough last year, but vowed to win consumers back by developing more innovative products. — HTC had one of its worst years in 2012 …

Keeping Safari a secret — For much of the time we spent developing Safari — long before it was called by that name — it pretended to be Microsoft Internet Explorer. Specifically, Internet Explorer for Mac, which Apple had provided with the OS since 1998.

Surface Pro release date set for late January — Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet is set to go on sale in late January. After unveiling the pricing for its Windows 8 tablet late last year, Microsoft has remained relatively quiet about the exact timing of release outside of a promised January timeframe.

Blekko Launches Izik, A Tablet-Optimized Search App — Search startup Blekko is launching a new app today called Izik (pronounced “Isaac"), which it says has been designed specifically for the search experience on tablets. — CEO Rich Skrenta said Izik is an attempt to recapture …